One Stop - Store Manager

What’s in it for you

About us

One Stop Stores Limited is a retail convenience business with over 1,000 company and franchise neighbourhood stores across Great Britain. We employ more than 10,500 colleagues. 

The majority of our stores are open seven days a week from 7am to 10pm and offer local communities an impressive range of fresh and chilled food, cupboard essentials, lunchtime meal deals, frozen food, household essentials, snacks and treats and beers, wines and spirits. Whether it’s popping in for a quick snack or grabbing ingredients for an evening meal, One Stop has everything its customers’ need. 

In addition to One Stop’s comprehensive product range, many of our stores offer services to enhance the shopping experience, including free cash machines, Post Office, Evri Parcelshop, PayPoint (for bill payments and mobile top-up), lottery, as well as vending solutions such as Costa Coffee and Tango Ice Blast. 

One Stop is a subsidiary of Tesco which acquired the stores in 2003. We operate as a separate business from our Head Office, also known as Store Support Centre in Brownhills, Walsall, West Midlands and we service our stores from 3 distribution centres in Brownhills, Nursling (Hampshire) and Wakefield (West Yorkshire). 

With our stores situated throughout England and Wales, there’s sure to be One Stop near where you live or work.

Core Purpose

Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

Values

• Our customers are at the heart of everything we do

• We treat each other how they like to be treated

• We work together as one team

• We make thing’s easier

At One Stop we value our colleagues just as much as our customers, and part of this is the benefits we offer:

• 10% Discount in One Stop
• 10% Discount Tesco & Tesco Cafe (increased to 15% on 4 weekly pay weekends)
• 20% Discount on F&F Clothing in Tesco Stores
• 10% discount at Tesco Mobile, including Colleague Deals which can be shared with friends & family
• 20% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco Bank. T&C’s apply
• Discounted eye care through Vision Express
• A range of discounts at Tesco Pharmacy such as 50% off health checks including flu jabs
• Discounted Simply Health cash plan
• Colleague Deals and Discounts, allowing access to exclusive savings with a variety of retailers, days out, gyms and much more
• Save as you earn scheme annual invitation
• WeCare support service, offering a 24/7 online GP to colleagues & immediate family members, second opinions, mental health support service, get fit programme and much more at no cost to colleagues
• Annual leave entitlement increases with length of service
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Life Assurance
• Car Allowance (if applicable to job role)
• Private Medical insurance (if applicable to job role)
• Flexible working, we have many forms of flexible working like part-time, job shares, phased retirement, blended working, lifestyle breaks, fixed shift patterns and staggered shift patterns. This ensures we suit everyone’s needs as flexibility is important to us as it is to you.

One Stop is a subsidiary of the Tesco Group but is operated as a separate business and as such benefits offered will differ between One Stop and Tesco.

One Stop have the right to withdraw the vacancy before the closing date should a successful application be received prior to the closing date. As such we would highly encourage you to submit your application as soon as you can.

Community Involvement

As a convenience retailer, it’s really important to us that our stores and colleagues are truly embedded within the communities that we serve. Whether that’s fundraising for local charities and groups or for our charity partners – supporting those in need is at the heart of all we do .

At One Stop, we’re so proud to have raised over £10.4million in the last 10 years! Not only this, we also work incredibly hard to tackle food waste by partnering with FareShare and Olio. Since 2015 our stores have donated an amazing 1.6 million equivalent food bank meals for our communities.

Working at One Stop will allow you to get involved in supporting charities within your community and those that are close to your heart – and our colleagues have had a go at everything! From climbing mountains, to running marathons in Spain to simply organising a raffle, we’re up for anything!

Diversity & Inclusion at One Stop  

Everyone is welcome at One Stop and we're proud to be an inclusive workplace that celebrates the cultures, personalities and preferences of all of our colleagues. It’s a place where everyone is treated fairly and with respect. Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values.

One of the most important things is making sure all our colleagues feel welcome at One Stop and our colleague networks do a fantastic job at communicating that. They provide a safe space for our colleagues to share their thoughts and experiences, raising awareness for important issues and representing our diverse workforce. Our Colleague Networks are Armed Forces, Disability, LGBTQ+, Families and Carers, Race and Ethnicity and Women’s.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. We put this into practice by ensuring against discrimination and providing support to those who may need it.

Learning & Development at One Stop

At One Stop our vision is create a learning culture where colleagues are learning every day. Whether you want to focus on your personal development, build confidence in your existing role or focus on growing your career, learning will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals. We also offer apprenticeships and an internal development programme ‘Options’ where you’ll be coached, guided and supported by experienced leaders.

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Level 2 and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

Please Note

One Stop will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here

About the role

We’re looking for a Store Manager to join our team at One Stop, a subsidiary of Tesco. As a Store Manager, you will be working in a fast paced retail environment where no day is the same.

You will be responsible for the overall daily operations of your store, ensuring efficiency and profitability.

As the customer is at the heart of everything we do, you will be constantly looking for ways to improve service in your store through on the job coaching and feedback.

With your guidance, your store will always remain a safe place to work and shop.

You will be responsible for

• I lead and line manage a team of Shift Leaders and colleagues in one store, ensuring I spend regular quality time with them on shift.
• I personally know all of my colleagues and I understand how people feel about working within my store through talking and listening. I lead and enable a culture where colleague experience is at the heart of everything we do.
• I am curious and role model a self-serve culture, I am confident that I can use the tools available to me to resolve any queries and encourage my team to do the same.
• I lead a culture where we get the basics right first time, this includes ensuring colleagues are trained, have a warm welcome to Onestop, we are compliant in all aspects of pay and employment compliance and colleagues have the tools to do their job. I also, look after the safety, health and wellbeing of my colleagues by supporting them to be at work.
• I continually review the shape and capability of my team to ensure our workforce is future fit through inspiring great performance and supporting your performance to create a high performing team.
• I complete all people leadership tasks for my team including absence management and solving problems
• I recognise my teams’ contribution and performance and celebrate with them regularly.
• I understand what the resource needs are for my store, spotting and developing talent internally and externally recruiting the best people in the industry. I ensure my talent pipeline is diverse and inclusive to reflect the community I serve.
• I manage all KPIs for my store, sharing ideas with other Store Managers in my area in order to maximise growth and profitability.
• My performance is measured through day job activities, my strategic objectives, myself and my impact on others.
• I am responsible for the operation of all services in my store including, post office local, EvRi and vending
• I am responsible for implementing business changes and new ways of working in my store.
• I ensure I resource my store within my labour budget to ensure it remains open for trading and compliant. I ensure candidate care is a priority and recruitment principles are followed.
• I ensure customers in my store have a great shopping trip and as a business we bring benefit to the local communities through trusted partnerships.
• I coach my team daily to deliver a great shopping trip and excellent retail store standards
• I continually review local competitor activity to understand the threats/opportunities and turn my insight into action.
• I ensure customers and colleagues in my store go home safely everyday by leading a robust health and safety culture, reviewing preventable incidents, accidents and audit performance.
• I support my team with completing tasks such as, serving customers, replenishment of stock, completing safe and legal routines, as well as my line management responsibilities.
• I am the DPS/Premises holder and I am responsible for the sale of all alcohol from my store
• If this store has a Post Office Local, You will be responsible for operating and managing all Post Office processes therefore you will need to undertake a Post Office Financial and criminal conviction background check, which you will be required to pass in order to proceed with this role, if these checks fail, we will be forced to withdraw the job offer.’